Kitchen specialises in designing strategies that build more meaningful brands. We inspire leadership teams to reimagine what’s possible and shape their future to #BeMoreEPIC.We work with ambitious businesses to power up their brand experience and fuel purposeful growth. Kitchen designs and deliver collaborations that enable leaders to:- Define a strong identity for their brand that embeds the values that keep their business on the right path at all times. - Discover the power of purpose to unite and engage by driving more meaningful experiences.- Identify the behaviours, character and culture to help deliver on purpose and promises.- Set out ambition for the long-term to establish success criteria as a focus for decision-making.- Identify and understand customers better to build more, stronger value.- Review and develop positioning to make it easy for people to choose them.- Define the hallmarks of brand experiences to create more distinctive and impactful outcomes.- Map and manage overall brand experiences to enhance and improve value creation.

I was one of the original four members of Gardiner Richardson when the agency first opened its doors for business in 1998. I spent 23 years at the Agency, 14 of those as a Director. How to sum up 23 years of my professional life? Here goes…- Board member, part of team responsible for shaping business strategy- Helped to build agency from 4 people to 40+ at its biggest- Mentoring countless highly talented individuals (and learning from all of them)- Proud to be part of a team that won over 60 industry awards- Leadership role in winning over £6m+ of new business - Developed and designed range of service innovations - Worked with clients nationally and internationally- Working with Founders, CEOs, C-Suite, Boards to devise brand strategies- Creating distinctive and innovative brand narratives- Working with design, content and production teams to bring narratives to life- Training and mentoring client teams to activate brand strategies- Established agency’s initial digital services proposition - Built and developed strategic partnerships with other agencies and collaborators- I’ve worked with leaders to define, articulate and activate powerful purposes that shape cultures - I've worked for clients in Fintech, Proptech, Education, FMCG, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Robotics and all sorts of other sectors - I’ve developed brand strategies for global businesses and sole traders- I’ve been a creative strategist, a brand planner, a PR account director, a project director, copywriter, content designer and most things in between- I’ve helped launch products, build communities, manage change, inspire teams and grow businesses- I’ve written storyboards for films, produced UX and database specifications for websites- I’ve devised and run interactive work sessions, been invited to speak at national conferences, joined boards of national initiatives Mostly, I worked with amazing people to do work that made us proud and made a difference.